Hello 2021, I Hope You Are Different

Many of us still face some long stretches of isolation, so let's make the most of our time and hope that things are better in the months to come.

Mary-Anne's Echoes Ornaments

How clever is this!

Mary-Anne was practicing the cutwork from Echoes and she made both practice sessions into ornaments.

Mary-Anne's Countess Geometric

(left)

Look at how Mary- Anne extended the size of the Countess Geometric from my Downton Abbey series by adding a pretty border.

At the top of my List this Year:  A Little Creativity!

Bring a bit of yourself to your needlework, as Mary-Anne Plousos has done. Thanks, Mary-Anne! You illustrate this point so well!

In the Next Days:

A Series of Box Tops

Here is a second Box Top Geometric, this one larger than the first. This one too from my Echoes series.

I can tell when I stitched it because of the beads on it. I remember approximately when I received the beads,  mostly vintage nailheads.

Pearls and some vintage metal sequins which are so rare finish it off.

In the Next Days:

A Series of Box Tops

I am back to sorting and I've come across a series of designs for Box Tops that I stitched but never wrote.

Here is the first one: a small 5" square design derived from my Echoes series, with pearls and red, charcoal and red beads.

I've auditioned it in a black and gold box and I also framed it.